Seems to me that a confession repeated would be nothing more than hearsay, so I just don’t see where this can be anything other than a baseless shakedown. A priest’s testimony, were it permitted by the Church, would not somehow guarantee a prima facie case.
“Seems to me that a confession repeated would be nothing more than hearsay,”
Yes, I thought of that too.
It would be silly to go into a confessional and lie, but obviously it could be done, and you could go in there and make false accusations, etc.
Besides, some people are just hysterical and delusional, they get to go to confession too.